Stephen Toope
Can Cambridge cope with Jordan Peterson?
His visit tests the self-appointed judiciary of acceptable ideas
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
